Bill Nelson: “Mr. Secretary, are there steps you can take now that will protect our investments from this happening?”

We go with commercial partners because the third mission, we are going into lunar orbit.

When we find those, by the way, not only looking for life, we start to understand their development, and we better understand who we are, why we are here, how we got here, and all of this evolution of the cosmos.

Funding NASA is critical to getting back to the moon, advancing our scientific understanding, and driving innovation.

Let me define the problem and give you the background.